Mathematical
Reflections and Translations: February, 2016
Announcements
- Thank you to Site Math Curriculum Specialists and CPM trainers for providing great Zone workshops earlier this month! See some pictures below.
- Thank you to Granger for hosting the annual Middle School Math Field Day this month and thank you to all teachers and students that participated!
- We welcomed some new members to the District Math Curriculum and PD team this month: Daniel Crook (CPH), Essie Orozco (SUHI) and Lisa O'donoghue (HTM) will be teaching part time, as well as working to support Sweetwater Math teachers at a district level.
Course-Alike Planning Days
Course-Alike Planning Days
This PD day is co-facilitated by curriculum specialists and CPM trainers. It will provide time for PLCs to collaborate with other schools while planning instruction and creating assessments (including a Sem 2 Final Exam).
IM7 and CIM7: March 8
IM8: March 9
IMI and CIMI: March 10
IMII: March 11
IMIII: March 14
CIMIII and PC: March 15
AP Calc and AP Stats: March 17
Reminder that the Course-Alike Planning days are intended for PLC groups and attendance is optional. Contact your math site specialist to sign up soon, space is limited.
Assessment Resource: SBAC item Filter
This site offers SBAC sample items organized by Claim, Standard, or CPM chapter (for Course 2,3 in Middle School). They are in easy-to-use formats so you can add/edit in exams or display for students.
Smarter Balanced Test Item Filter
by Taylor Llewellyn:
GUESS: How many malted eggs are in the cylinder?
The website Estimation 180 (for 180 school days) is a fun way to help students build number sense! Get them to estimate an answer, then reveal the answer via video or image!
Teacher Q & A
A: If one of your TI-84 calculators stops working, contact your librarian or site tech and they can call 1-800-TICARES. A tech there will help them trouble shoot to fix the calculator. If it is not fixable, then they will send it to TI for a replacement. TI will give them a RMA# that will be used to complete a requistion for the shipping cost. Librarians have the complete warranty information.
SDSU Master of Arts in Teaching
Middle School Zone Training
High School Zone Training
Middle School Zone Training
CPM Teacher Tip of the Week
Week 25:
Students do not arrive at your classroom door with the same background knowledge or readiness, so you are constantly required to differentiate instruction. There are general notes and suggestions in the “Universal Access” section in the front matter of the Teacher Edition. You will find specific suggestions for differentiation of instruction within the “Lesson Activity” notes or in the Universal Access section at the end of the teacher notes for many lessons. These notes include questions to ask students when they need a nudge to move on with the lesson and extension questions for students who need more challenge. Asking well-crafted questions is one of the best ways to differentiate instruction, so prepare a set of questions as a resource. Include some questions to check for prior understanding, some to help students explain their thinking, and some to extend thinking. Be prepared to ask individual students within teams to respond to these questions depending on their depth of understanding or their need for help in attaining a basic understanding of the concept(s).
In some lesson notes you will find a discussion of typical points of confusion, common misconceptions, or anticipated errors and suggestions for how to address them along with information about the core problems and any extension and enrichment problems. Each lesson lists the core problems that all students need to complete, but which students do the non-core problems in your classroom may vary from day to day.
When more than the lesson notes and student textbook is needed you should refer to the Universal Access document in the front of the Teacher’s Edition. This document lists and discusses various strategies to use with various learners’ needs. The last few pages of this resource address literary support strategies.
For a list of all the Teacher Tips, click Here
NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Annual Conference
Math Curriculum Team
Esmeralda Orozco (Math curriculum specialist-High School)
Mimi Williams (Math curriculum specialist-Middle School)
Melisa O'Donoghue (Math curriculum specialist-Middle School)
Carla Jacobs (Special Education Support)
Ivette Sanchez (SEI and Bilingual Support)
Email: mimi.williams@sweetwaterschools.org
Website: curriculum.suhsd.k12.ca.us
Location: 1130 5th Ave, Chula Vista, CA, United States
Phone: (619) 600-4947